Praxis 5205-6

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A fifth-grade teacher suggests that students should read aloud pieces they have written. The teacher is MOST LIKELY suggesting this because

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students of this age are still developing oral language skills.

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While observing writing conferences in an upper elementary classroom, a teacher hears a student suggest to a peer that he delete an irrelevant sentence from his essay. The teacher would MOST LIKELY praise the student for her suggestion to improve the essay's

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organization.

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Which spelling activity is the class MOST LIKELY engaged in? Options: cover-copy-compare, paper, word sorts, word families

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word sorts

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Which strategy is most useful for helping students develop coherence and organization in their writing? Options: freewriting or journaling, DR-TA

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freewriting or journaling

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Which type of targeted mechanics instruction should the teacher providing interventions plan? Options: basic orthography, sentence structure, basic capitalization, preposition use

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sentence structure

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Peer review activities can be an effective part of the writing process when they occur within a structured framework. What is one effective method for this?

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use homogenous grouping.

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In which type of writing would students be MOST LIKELY to use a dialect or register and still communicate a message effectively? Options: an expository essay, a free-verse poem, a research paper, a blographical essay

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a free-verse poem

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Purposeful instruction in the mechanics of writing should focus on which of the following relationships? semantics and pragmatics, mechanics and communication, inductive and deductive reasoning, mechanics and vocabulary

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mechanics and communication

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Which strategy would be most helpful for a fourth-grade teacher who wants to help her students develop prosody? Options: audio-assisted reading, analytic phonics, reader's theater, reading workshop

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reader's theater

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A fourth-grade teacher uses timed repeated readings to help students build fluency. Which type of texts should she select for such readings?

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familiar texts